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by jhbadger 3y ago
>Generative AI only works for the most popular languages on the internet I'm not so sure about that. I was amused when playing with ChatGPT shortly after it was public that it could answer questions in Esperanto and even write the s
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>Gilligan gains the ability to read minds after being hit on the head with a coconut. Partial credit. The title is right, but the explanation is a hallucination. It isn't a coconut but special sunflower seeds that give Gilligan (and
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>A developing nation even thinks about nationalizing their resource extraction Suddenly there’s a coup with the CIA’s fingerprints all over it. In the Cold War, yes, because then it was assumed (rightly in some cases, wrongly in others)
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Until the industrial revolution, land was power far more than money. Wealthy merchants may have lived well, but it was the aristocrats who owned the land who really ran things. And that land wasn't purchased but inherited.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Heck, The Simpsons has been largely animated in South Korea since the beginning over thirty years ago! They've even made jokes about that in the show itself. https://www.today.com/popculture/simpsons-rides-seoul-
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Also, while I know the readership of HN skews young, but when you reach your 50s, having the ability to make the text larger in an ebook is a killer feature.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Yes, and the 1980s the animation studio was on the verge of being disbanded before 1989's "The Little Mermaid" was a success and started the "Disney Renaissance" of the 1990s.
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Although formal logicians are quite isolated in philosophy departments -- while their colleagues are debating whether Plato or Kant had a better idea of what it meant to be "good", the logicians are basically doing math with symbo
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by jhbadger 3y ago
> Amazon is filled with garbage. Full stop, no need to specify e-books. But the problem is where else can you buy things online where this isn't a problem these days? Everywhere has become a marketplace akin to Alibaba (where people
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by jhbadger 3y ago
In the US Federal Government we also have to deal with the fiscal new year which starts in October for some bizarre reason (yearly budgets go from October 1st to September 30).
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The key problem is I don't see a scenario where the US economy collapses and the rest of the world is fine to escape to. The 1929 Wall Street crash led to a global economic depression, likewise the 2008 US subprime mortgage crash led t
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by jhbadger 3y ago
While it's true that it is worth being skeptical about the current deep learning/LLM boom, younger people who don't know who Gary Marcus is need to know that he is not really an unbiased observer here -- he has never liked ne
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>What I mean is, the way I was taught maths and science in general was with a feeling of “look we basically know everything just learn this and you’ll be fine”. That's pretty much how anything is taught in high school (and even most
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I get paying for a search engine rather than having it be ad-supported. And I get that running all those servers costs a fair chunk of change. But the cost just seems insane -- $10/month? That's on par with a streaming service tha
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I like how the article brings up Alien , which Dan O'Bannon later wrote the screenplay for. They have a lot of similarities -- both presenting space travel not as glamorous but as something the future equivalent of truckers do, and al
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I'm not a fan of the data tracking that I know those loyalty programs are for, but at least in the US most stores overcharge you if you don't use them (they present it as giving a "discount" if you use them but really yo
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I'm not sure if anyone actually plays this as an actual chess variant, but it is fun to write a chess player for this, mirroring the 1956 version. I remember reading about this in the 1980s and wrote a version in BASIC that could beat
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Also, Roughs Tower (a WWII fortification twelve miles off the coast of Suffolk) was a site of the pirate radio station Radio Essex in the 1960s before the late Roy Bates declared his new "nation" of Sealand on it and declared hims
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Even using it for an Apple II emulator is a bit of a troll because back in the day Apple II users resented the Mac as they wanted Apple to continue the Apple II line and were upset that Apple dumped it in favor of focusing on the Mac. That
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>Yes, CD players existed in the 90s Heck, CD players were released in 1982! I got my first in 1986, when they began to get cheaper. >But why would you bother with one, when all your music is on tape? Because the audio quality was just
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by jhbadger 3y ago
He also was a worthy successor to Martin Gardner in his Scientific American columns, and like Gardner, collected those columns into a series of books, The Tinkertoy Computer , The Magic Machine , and The Armchair Universe . What made his
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by jhbadger 3y ago
In part because the US has created "pre-school", which children attend for a year or two before kindergarten. This is more like the traditional kindergarten that you describe -- it is intended to get kids to learn to get along wit
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>Pleased with his concept, Fitch named it Jonathan (after himself) While it may not have been coincidental that Fitch's name was Jonathan, another reason is that the Jonathan is a strain of apple, as is the McIntosh (spelled Macinto
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by jhbadger 3y ago
And even back then he wasn't completely wrong. Yes, people laugh at his assertion that "nobody would want to shop online rather than go to a mall" but the dot-com crash of 2000-2001 did kill off most online shopping venues.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>The idea of networked technology & connected computing was & is so cool. I'm not sure what exactly here offers that though? It was talking about the features of NeXTMail. It might not be obvious if you weren't using co
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Does it? I thought the issue is that people who just wanted a "better Java than Java" went to Kotlin after first using Scala, But those people who liked the functional aspects stuck with Scala.
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Isn't that basically what many authors do? Many authors are afraid of diluting their brand so when they write books in a different genre or style they create a new pen name to keep the works distinct from their main name. For example S
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by jhbadger 3y ago
But could you get into the network to access the UNIX boxes without a PIV card? That's how the NIH works -- the UNIX boxes do have passwords, but unless you are on campus you have to connect to the VPN with your PIV card first.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
And before he was California's governor (and later POTUS), he was head of SAG-AFTRA (the actors' union) and even led them on strike in 1960 to protest how movie actors weren't getting any money when old movies were shown on T
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But TIC-80 just is so much better than PICO-8. Not just the resolutions (which people can argue are an aesthetic choice for PICO-8) but the fact that you aren't limited to lua but have a variety of languages (some Lisp inspired) in TIC

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